Venero Armanno

3 TitlesVenero Armanno is the author of a book of short stories and seven critically acclaimed novels including Romeo of the Underworld, Firehead, The Volcano and The Dirty Beat. Firehead was shortlisted in the 1999 Queensland Premiers Literary Award for Best Fiction; The Volcano won that award in 2002. His fiction has been published in USA, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Israel and South Korea.

Rock and jazz drummer Max is dead. Now, in his coffin as his friends prepare to bury him, Max is surrounded by the ghosts of his life and the dreams that never faded. In this sea of memory, Max recall ...

When a boy sold into slavery finds the courage to escape his brutal life, he is saved by a mysterious stranger, who raises the boy as his own. Renamed Cesare Montenero after Sicily’s own ‘black mounta ...